The
Sugarspear Chronicles, the incredible twenty-six-novella saga that started with
a little girl and her willow tree, is finally available in one complete
collection.

The Sugarspear
Chronicles: The Complete Collection is the story of young Sadie Sugarspear, a
girl who endures intolerable abuse by reading about a fantasy world filled with
incredible sights and outlandish people—a place she’s only ever encountered
through her real father’s storybook.

One day, when the
cruelty becomes too much to bear, Sadie runs away and hides inside her beloved
willow tree. To her surprise, the tree opens, sending Sadie down into the
abyss, into a land she’s only ever read about—where she must being a long,
terrifying, and heartbreaking journey home.

Readers can now enjoy
the entirety of author Nicole Arlyn’s dark fantasy saga in one complete book.
This complete collection also includes a note from the author detailing the
inspiration and events that led to The Sugarspear Chronicles.

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Excerpt One:

The wind was ripping through the dandelion fields. The fence
that stood alone shook but the blue flowers hanging off it stayed still. A pale
girl walked on the dirt road through the fog and mud puddles towards the fence,
her long brown hair slapping against her face, covering her green eyes that
seemed blue when she turned them to the sky. She pushed her thin body through
the wind, the black Rolling Stones t-shirt she wore as a dress blowing into her
stomach. When she stood in front of the fence, the flowers finally swayed.
Sprinkles of dew dying. Then she pulled them off, the crushed flowers in her
hands, falling to earth. The wind never took them.

She sat on top of the fence watching the sky for rain.
Instead she saw the faces that the clouds made morphing from evil to angel in
one blink of her eyes. She ran her hands along the old brown wood, digging her
fingertips hard in, crusted blood under her fingernails. She kicked her legs
against the fence half wanting to knock it over and half wanting to fall with
it, but it wouldn’t fall. She rubbed her thighs with the splinters until they
burned and then made a fist with her right hand and bit down on it. She bit
hard enough to stop her own tears. Only cry when the rain comes, she thought.
That way the rain would wash away her tears and no one would know. She saw a
caterpillar sitting beside her and picked it up.

“No one knows youʼre here but me,” she whispered. She laid
the caterpillar where she found it. She opened her hands and kept waiting to
catch the rain. She waited as the sky twisted around her, sealing her in a mist
she wished only the sky could see through.

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AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Nicole is a
writer and an actress born in Brooklyn, New York. She has worked in films such
as Clay Pigeons, opposite Joaquin Phoenix; The Wedding Planner; and Brooklyn
Bound, among many others. She has performed, written and directed theater
productions in New York, Los Angeles, and Europe. She has also read her poems
in many poetry lounges in Europe and America, and is a song lyricist for
musicians.

After living
in Rome, Italy, for the past several years, Nicole has returned to New York
City where she lives with her husband and son. She is at work on more novels.